20 Crazy Details Behind The Making Of The Mummy Movies

17 RACHEL VS PATRICIA

One of the most famous scenes in the entire Mummy franchise is the fight scene between Rachel Weisz and Patricia Velásquez in The Mummy Returns. It is a thrilling and well-choreographed fight between the two women that is a joy to watch simply as a cool action set piece.

As it happens, it actually is between those two women. While it would’ve been easy to let stunt performers do the heavy lifting as the characters are in masks for much of the fight, Weisz and Velásquez instead opted to spend a grueling five months training for just that one battle in order to do it themselves.

Source and full article: Screenrant.com